Smile, it’s Friday! 😃
— Alison Fisk (@AlisonFisk) September 25, 2026
Meet ‘The Oldest Smile in the World’ a tiny face that’s been smiling for some 7,400 years!
Carved from oak during the Mesolithic, this small human figure was found in 1966 in a layer of peat during dock construction at Willemstad in the Netherlands.… pic.twitter.com/wCRFgJaGGj
>Catholic, Former 22nd SAS soldier
— Trad West (@trad_west_) September 2, 2026
> Picks up a random hitchhiker who tells him in an unnatural voice, “May God bless you many times this day.”
>Hears about a terrorist attack happening at a hotel
>Grabs his gear and drives toward the scene
>Enters the building alone. Moves floor… pic.twitter.com/lEhVvNQPVy
A factory that produces absolutely nothing. No profit and no revenue. It cost a billion dollars to build and will cost $100 million dollars per year to operate. It will capture less than 0.003% of the world's CO2 output.
— varrock (@varrock) September 7, 2026
They're calling it the most European project of all time. https://t.co/CVh28UQPay
America’s 15 year old boys actually went up in math on the PISA while girls scores dropped again. The gender gap is now 24 points. Wow. pic.twitter.com/PlZpREWSuJ
— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) September 8, 2026
E.F. Benson on the remarkable fact that, for hundreds of years, if you could win a King's Scholarship to Eton as a teenager, you could spend the rest of your life as a Bachelor Fellow of King's, Cambridge, devoted to either scholarship or "the gentle art of doing nothing at all". pic.twitter.com/ZhlhrZVvUB
— Antigone Journal (@AntigoneJournal) September 3, 2026
Bede (in A.D. ~730) and the Beowulf poet both include a story of young men racing their horses. Bede clearly considered it a vanity, but in Beowulf it’s only described in a positive light.
— Grǣġhama (@grahamscheper) September 3, 2026
If we grant that Beowulf was an early 8th century Mercian composition, Bede and the… pic.twitter.com/rIh2MH4W81
In 1989, a pelican named Katta-kun began going to a kindergarten in Japan where it played and interacted with the children as if it were one of them. pic.twitter.com/h6eqRIYQa0
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 3, 2026
Anybody remember this? Still one of the funniest clips.
— Kevin Edger (@KEdge23) September 3, 2026
“Who are you?”
Not just Jeremy Corbyn here, look who’s sat right next to him…. it’s his left hand man Andy Burnham. pic.twitter.com/DmWIWv9cjK
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